So when storms come, they get washed away.

所以当暴风雨来临时，它们就被冲刷走了。

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Their ships, their boats were not very seaworthy; storms come up in the Mediterranean very suddenly and terribly; you take your life in your hands when you travel.

他们航海的工具,船只,还非常脆弱,地中海可怕的风暴神出鬼没,当时出海就意味着,你把自己交给命运处置

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It will just be eaten away by the storms that come when the ice is no longer there, ice that used to be there because the planet was cold enough.

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